Private cloud solutions are proving to be the answer for organizations  that want to gain better agility in operating their IT networks and applications while maintaining control and financial oversight over the entire IT environment.

Avanade is ready to help you on the journey to a standardized and predictable cloud environment. Our private cloud solution enables agility, empowers organizations to gain insights into IT resource usage and costs, and helps improve process and compliance controls. In a journey that is unique to each enterprise, Avanade uses a phased approach to plan and enable the benefits of private (and increasingly hybrid) cloud solutions. Our proven approach addresses options for you to:

• Simplify: Rein in existing sprawl of physical/virtual infrastructure; standardize and consolidate infrastructure
• Automate: Implement process standardization, governance and automation
• Enhance: Enable self-service capability providing business units better agility, visibility, control and satisfaction with their IT services

Avanade’s Private Cloud Solution is built on the latest Microsoft technologies including Windows Server 2012, System Server 2012 and Avanade’s own Cloud Services Manager software. These technologies offer exciting new opportunities to address ways for IT to contribute to improved productivity, optimize operations, lower cost, tighter security, and a reduced environmental footprint.

Windows Server 2012